putative father

putative father

the alleged father of an illegitimate child.

PUTATIVE FATHER. The reputed father.
2. This term is most usually applied to the father of a bastard child.
3. The putative father is bound to support his children, and is
entitled to the guardianship and care of them in preference to all persons
but the mother. 1 Ashm. It. 55; and vide 7 East, 11; 5 Esp. R. 131; 1 B. &
A. 491; Bott, P. L. 499; 1 C. & P. 268; 1 B. & B. 1; 3 Moore, R. 211; Harr.
Dig. Bastards, VII.; 3 C. & P. 36.

It said that one of the reasons was 'because of the birth of Maisie to a mother of only 15 and a putative father who was 13 at the time of the child's birth and 12 at the time of the alleged conception'.

Within those care proceedings, the local authority, supported by the children's guardian (who was appointed only seven weeks after the start of proceedings), sought directions as to the involvement of the putative father and the mother's extended family.

4) Rather than centering its decision on the family unit and the bond between father and son, the court focused on the fraud perpetuated by the mother and biological father and utilized equitable tolling to allow the putative father to bring suit thirty years after the birth of the son.

While Bradstreet calls her poems "ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain," Brooks writes of his essay collection having been "conceived" online through a partnership between himself, "as putative father," and Erica Gaffney of Ashgate as "partner" and Ann Donahue, also of Ashgate, as "capable and caring surrogate mother.

61) The court, although noting that this case was one of first impression, nevertheless found "guidance" in the opinion of the court in Greenwood which recognized the right of a child out of wedlock to prove paternity even after the death of the putative father.

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